And I answered:10701070 [Comp.
Recognitions, x. 17–19, 29–36, 41, for statements
similar to those in chaps. 12–19.—R.] “I
shall not at present speak particularly of that living egg, which was
conceived by a happy combination out of infinite matter, and from
which, when it was broken, the masculo-feminine Phanes leaped forth, as
some say. I say little about all that, up to the point when this
broken globe attained coherency, there being left in it some of its
marrow-like matter; and I shall briefly run over the description of
what took place in it by the agency of this matter, with all that
followed. For from Kronos and Rhea were born, as you
say—that is, by time and matter—first Pluto, who represents
the sediment which settled down; and then Poseidon, the liquid
substance in the middle,10711071 This is
Wiesler’s conjecture. which floated over
the heavier body below; and the third child—that is,
Zeus—is the æther, and is highest of all. It was not
devoured; but as it is a fiery power, and naturally ascends, it flew up
as with a bound to the very highest æther.

1070 [Comp.
Recognitions, x. 17–19, 29–36, 41, for statements
similar to those in chaps. 12–19.—R.]